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Goodman, Joshua S. - 2019

We demonstrate that heat inhibits learning and that school air-conditioning mitigates this effect. Student fixed effects models using 10 million PSAT-retakers show hotter school days in years before the test reduce scores, with extreme heat being particularly damaging. Weekend and summer heat...

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Motivation and Incentives in an Online Labor Market

Fest, Sebastian - 2019

In this paper we present results from a large scale real effort experiment in an online labor market investigating the effect of performance pay and two common leadership techniques: Positive expectations and specific goals. We find that positive expectations have a significant negative effect...

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Outside Options and Worker Motivation

Ahammer, Alexander; Fahn, Matthias; Stiftinger, Flora - 2023

We study the relationship between outside options and workers’ motivation to exert effort. We evaluate changes in …

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Efficiency Wages with Motivated Agents

Armouti-Hansen, Jesper - 2020

Many organizations nowadays combine profits with a social mission. This paper reveals a new hidden benefit of the mission: its role in facilitating the emergence of efficiency wages. We show that in a standard gift-exchange principals highly underestimate agents' reciprocity and, thereby, offer...

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Own Motivation, Peer Motivation, and Educational Success

Bietenbeck, Jan - 2021

I study how motivation shapes own and peers’ educational success. Using data from Project STAR, I find that academic … motivation in early elementary school, as measured by a standardized psychological test, predicts contemporaneous and future test … motivation does not affect longer-term educational success, likely because it does not change own motivation …

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Job Satisfaction and Trade Union Membership in Germany

Goerke, Laszlo; Huang, Yue - 2022

union membership and job satisfaction in Germany. Cross-sectional analyses reveal a negative correlation, while fixed … estimation models, we investigate whether the effects vary by gender, age, birth year, and employment status …

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On the Representativeness of the ifo Business Survey

Hiersemenzel, Magdolna; Sauer, Stefan; Wohlrabe, Klaus - 2022

Germany. Moreover, the anonymized micro data can be used for a wide range of research projects. In order to obtain robust …

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Who Carries the Burden of the Value-Added Tax? Evidence from Germany

Sultan, Samina - 2021

exogenous value-added tax reform in Germany, I use an event study and a differences-in-differences approach to investigate the …

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Fiscal Equalization as a Driver of Tax Increases : Empirical Evidence from Germany

Büttner, Thiess - 2018

This paper exploits a recent devolution of tax setting powers in the German federation to study the effects of fiscal equalization on subnational governments’ tax policy. Based on an analysis of the system of fiscal equalization transfers, we argue that the redistribution of revenues provides...

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Justice Delayed is Assimilation Denied : Rightwing Terror, Fear and Social Assimilation of Turkish Immigrants in Germany

Deole, Sumit S. - 2018

In 2011, German police accidentally stumbled upon a previously unknown right-wing extremist group called the National … Turkish individuals and in other crimes targeting Islamic immigrants in Germany. Using German Socioeconomic Panel (SOEP) data …

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